1) Is it the case that Horton´s account primarily with respect to how one acts out his membership as an indicator of the conceptual inextricability of political obligation to membership explain Ricardo´s now infamous trepidation and, on a more serious note, does it also provide a viable alternative to Beatham´s triplet of legitimacy criteria ?
2) Granting validity to Horton´s suggestion, is it the case that there is a certain minimal pattern of morally constrained behaviour that would be applicable to the set of all possible political communities with all their respective differences? How does this relate to the cosmopolitan issue of global citizenship?